People in public life should work for others: Sonia

Cong Prez Sonia Gandhi said people in public life should prove with their work that they are working for others.

UPA Chairperson and Congress President Sonia Gandhi today said people in public life should prove with their work that they are working not for themselves, but for others, specially the weak, the deprived and the oppressed.

“It is true not just for individuals but also for society, the country and the world,” she said in her address at the 44th All India Oriental Conference, Kurukshetra University, here.

She said in “this holy land, Lord Krishna had delivered the sermon of the Gita advocating balance in life in which there is struggle, sacrifice, gain and loss, all of which are for the human culture and its rebuilding”.

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Laying stress on education, she said lack of knowledge leads to problems in society and the country.

“In the absence of knowledge, there is no wisdom and it leads to myths, which in turn mislead people away from their path. And whatever happens after that, we are witnessing them around us today,” she said.

Gandhi said we should “learn from our glorious traditions which will help us deal with the problems of today in a much better way”.

Before her address at the conference, Gandhi dedicated a Krishna-Arjuna chariot at Purushottampura Bagh to the nation and laid foundation of a museum being set up to commemorate the First War of Independence in 1857.

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